The Blue Knight stood beside them as well, with someone wrapped up like a rice dumpling following behind her—it was the Earl.
Hilde recognized the old man. The Earl, bundled up like a rice dumpling, smiled somewhat awkwardly.
The Blue Knight did not concern herself with any of that. The Earl's Transcendence Path had never been particularly strong to begin with, so for now, all he needed to do was stay obediently behind her.
Klaus was growing anxious. Every time he took out the potion, the Guardian pretended not to see it and ignored him completely.
It looked as though the Guardian had already begun to give up. Klaus was frantic, wanting nothing more than to pry open the Guardian's mouth and force the potion down his throat.
But now was not the time. Outside the Tower of Erudition, the flesh's momentum was steadily rising; until moments ago, it had only seemed to be fooling around.
Klaus could not worry about anything else. He strode outside the Tower of Erudition, pulled the copper signal flare from his coat, loaded it into the firearm he carried, and pulled the trigger at the sky.
The next instant, a blinding golden light burst from the signal flare, tearing through the gray sky and shooting straight above the clouds.
Klaus could no longer spare thought for anything else. He had wanted to bring Lu Yuan along, but Lu Yuan's aura seemed to have become entangled with that of the Person on the Wall. Some strange power radiated around him as well, and with that ever-widening rift in the Sea of Knowledge, Klaus understood what Lu Yuan had done.
He did not know how Lu Yuan had managed it, but this was no time for sentimentality. If Lu Yuan did not have much time left